Emil O W Kirkegaard

@RAVerBruggen Q: To address multicollinearity (even mild) why isn't it standard to do this--remove variable of interest, use residuals?

@RAVerBruggen The coefficients are not very interpretable because they are not on the same scale. You need to standardize the data.

@KirkegaardEmil You mean the residuals of a model are on a different scale than the original variable?

@RAVerBruggen The variables in your orig. model are also not on the same scale, so beta for one not comparable to beta for another.

@KirkegaardEmil Right, but I'm just concerned about 1 percentage point change in gun ownership = X percent change in Murder

@KirkegaardEmil That's 2.2 percent in the original model. It's not about 1 percent with the residuals?

@KirkegaardEmil Journalism major, but I thought residuals were the difference between model prediction & actual value. How different scale?